Handarat refugee camp

The Handarat refugee camp was a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Aleppo, Aleppo Governorate, Syria. The camp was abandoned at the time of the battle of Aleppo during the Syrian Civil War, and it was the location of heavy fighting between Islamist rebels and pro-Syrian Arab Republic forces, including the Palestinian Liwa al-Quds militia. On 12 May 2016, government forces were forced to retreat from the camp during the new rebel offensive in southern Aleppo, with Fastaqim Kama Umirt, the Mountain Hawks Brigade, al-Nusra Front, and Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki being just a few of the militant groups that forced them out.